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The educational research evidence we need—No. 1

Evidence-based means...uhm, what?

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John Wills Lloyd
Oct 29, 2026
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In the first post in this series, The educational research evidence we need—No. 0, I explained the foundational idea that evidence that points directly to practices, procedures, methods, and materials that result in better outcomes for learners should be considered of greater importance than research that points elsewhere. In this post, I explain one feature of research that permits certain evidence to fall into the less important clump or into the important clump.

Let us now proceed…

Relevance of evidence

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